Chapter 114 Papermaking

To deal with aristocratic families, relying solely on force will not solve the fundamental problem, but will also cause some bad consequences.

Even if forced suppression can cause certain serious consequences to them.

But this will bring many disadvantages. After all, these aristocratic families not only have many books and literati, but also have various forces.

So if you want to deal with these, you have to start from the root.

Forced suppression by force is only a solution to superficial problems, but cannot solve essential problems.

Otherwise, the emperors of all dynasties would not be able to solve the problems of these aristocratic families.

In Li Ke's eyes, dealing with aristocratic families is actually much easier.

He still knows a little about history and understands very well how the aristocratic families in history declined.

To put it bluntly, the aristocratic families have a profound foundation.

If you want to disintegrate them, just make their foundation less important.

And their background is obviously the book resources accumulated over the years.

With book resources, aristocratic families can create a group of literati, and literati are very important to this world.

Therefore, a system like the imperial examination emerged during the Sui Dynasty. The reason why the Tang Dynasty followed the imperial examination system was to create more poor students through the imperial examination system and use it for the court.

In this way, the court can use fewer people from aristocratic families, and the power of aristocratic families in the court will naturally be smaller.

However, throughout the Tang Dynasty in history, the aristocratic families continued to flourish because although the imperial court opened the imperial examination, few ordinary people studied.

Of course, not many of them can participate in the imperial examination.

Even if there is, the aristocratic families will carry out various secret operations by the officials of the imperial court, and continue to take such forces into their hands.

Therefore, although the Tang Dynasty in history came up with many policies to deal with the aristocratic families, almost no effect was achieved.

Even the imperial examination did not show any particularly great advantages.

To put it bluntly, it is because there are too few scholars, and there are few scholars because they are expensive to study.

Ordinary people are not like big families, with books, resources, time and financial resources to support them in their reading.

Most ordinary people need to support their families. Not to mention books, they may not even have enough food and clothing for three meals a day.

So!

To solve the problem of aristocratic families, we must first solve the problem of books so that people all over the world can read.

Fortunately, as a time traveler, Li Ke understands more than anyone else how books are made, and there are only two things!

Papermaking and printing!

In this era, papermaking technology is very backward and the cost is very high. Paper is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Therefore, just from paper, the cost of this book is already very high.

As for printing.

In the early Tang Dynasty, only woodblock printing appeared.

As the name suggests, it means carving characters on wooden boards and brushing them with a layer of ink for printing.

This cost is also very high.

After all, we have to make the molds of carved plates on page by page.

There are so many pages and so many carvings to carve, and if this book is no longer printed, the carvings will be ruined.

In addition, there is another way to copy manually.

The cost is undoubtedly very high.

The two major problems of paper and printing have led to the high cost of making books, which is why books are in the hands of the aristocratic families.

After returning to the palace, Li Ke sorted out his thoughts and in the morning court, he proposed to the ministers that he would punish the aristocratic families.

At that time, some officials stood up to oppose Li Ke's decision, and these officials were all civil officials.

As mentioned earlier, the most lacking among the aristocratic families is the literati. They also control many literati. Many literati in the world either come from aristocratic families or learn from aristocratic families.

During the Li Er period, many civil officials, even from aristocratic families.

Although Li Ke is now the emperor, there are still some people in the court who are related to the aristocratic families, which is inevitable.

Li Ke didn't care about the voices of these people.

It was not until someone mentioned the book that Li Ke sneered.

Then he called out the Minister of Works directly and orally described a set of papermaking techniques on the main hall.

The papermaking technique he mentioned is not much different from what is available.

However, at this time, the papermaking materials were mostly hemp.

Li Ke proposed on this basis that some types of trees and bark can also be used to make paper.

In addition, a production line concept was proposed, and the reform of papermaking tools was proposed...

Li Ke said this issue carefully in public, and the officials of the Ministry of Works were shocked.

Although papermaking has begun to take shape, Li Ke is still so perfect, which surprised everyone.

The officials of the Ministry of Works were very excited. This perfect papermaking technique would obviously greatly improve the papermaking industry.

When Li Ke told everyone about the specific method of improving papermaking, everyone thought it was over.

However, Li Ke continued to look at the ministers, as if he was going to propose something else!

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!